Tim Larson-led MORE Commission recommends state-wide motor vehicle mill rate
A phase-out of the local motor vehicle property tax, elimination of the mandate that towns publish public notices in newspapers and a common school year calendar are among the recommendations of the Municipal Opportunities & Regional Efficiencies...
Dollar General opens on Main Street
Like General Douglas McArthur at Leyte in the Philippines in 1944, Dollar Genera...
East Hartford woman dies in Hartford shooting
A shooting that left an East Hartford woman dead in her car may be drug related,...
Regional Animal Shelter opening Friday, April 26 in SW
On Friday, April 26, South Windsor will join with the towns of Manchester and Ea...
Planetarium dedicated at new Glastonbury East Hartford Magnet School
The new planetarium of the Glastonbury-East Hartford Magnet School glowed inside...
Bike lanes proposed for Burnside
The State Dept. of Transportation held a public information meeting April 30 at Town Hall to explain road design changes it wants to make on a 2.75-mile stretch of Burnsi...
'State of the Air' poor according to EH-based American Lung Assoc.
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2013 report released today finds that while ozone and particle pollution (soot) levels improved in many parts...
Gun barrel too often pointed at kids, CSU study says
While gun control issues usually surface after major incidents like the fatal shooting of 20 elementary school students in Newtown, a new study shows that children are ro...
A royal wedding on Floradale Drive
On June 30, The Ghanaian community of Greater Hartford gathered to celebrate the wedding of the year on Floradale Drive here in East Hartford.
Nana Okoda Darko I, Akim Ku...
Congressman Larson: $300K grant for Wadsworth Atheneum of Art
Congressman John B. Larson announced that the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has been awarded a $300,000 competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanitie...
Go west, Husky fans, for a catfight in Colorado on Halloween, 2015
The University of Connecticut and Brigham Young University will play a two-game non-conference football series in the 2014 and 2015 seasons. UConn and BYU will meet on Au...
State parks open Memorial Day weekend
Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced that all state parks and forests will be open for the traditional Memorial Day weekend. D...
Dr. Henry Lee to deliver MCC commencement address
Dr. Henry C. Lee, one of the world’s foremost forensic scientists, will address the graduates at Manchester Community College’s 49th commencement ceremony on the campus T...
Were you one of Terri Tostarelli's Girl Scouts?
Attention: Past and present Girl Scouts, members of Terri Tostarelli's Troop #51 or #10051. Terri has been a Girl Scout leader for 51 years. Please join in helping with a ...
Shirley Ann Beaulieu
Shirley Ann (Doucette) Beaulieu, 77, of East Hartford, loving wife of the late Joseph E. Beaulieu, went to be with Our Lord on Monday, May 20, 2013 at her home with her c...
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This photo of the Goodwin School 8th grade class was taken at the soon-to-open new East Hartford High School on Burnside Avenue in 1954. (Today it serves as East Hartford Middle School.) Sylvia Steadman, a member of the class, and four friends from Mrs. Paul's 1947 Second Grade got together recently at Alforno's restaurant to reminisce. "We are all not only East Hartford graduates - we are all Goodwin graduates of 8th grade-but we spent our 8th grade in what was to be the new EHHS on Burnside Avenue - Goodwin was growing to fast in those days - there were two 8th grades." Note the 8th grade boys with suits and ties - not bad for 13-year olds. "One of the 2nd graders brought along a report card from Mrs. Paul - she wrote in her comments to Bill's parents: ‘Billy seems to get much more fun out of school than is necessary.' Now how is that for tact!"
A thought for the day
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
